FEBRUARY 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At eleven in the morning a message from a doctor, through a local shipping agent, asked for the services of the life-boat to land a man who had been seriously injured on board the Swedish steamer Eriksborg, of...
AMBULANCE CALL WHEN on 16th January, 1972, a Russian fish factory ship, anchored 30 miles west of Guernsey, requested assistance to take off a sick man requiring hospital treatment, the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat went...
On the 2nd January, 1864, the barque Hamilton Gray, of Liverpool, ran ashore on DundramBar. The Newcastle life-boat proceeded to her, and took off 2 of her crew, when the boat was struck by a heavy sea, and got seriously damaged alongside...
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 28th of June, 1950, the harbour master called the mechanic ashore from the life- boat Dun- leary II, and told him that a sailing boat had capsized. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
APRIL 21ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. During the afternoon the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, foundered in Bournemouth Bay when on a pleasure cruise with about seventy people on board.
The weather was fine, the sea...
The late Coxswain Eric Pengilly of Sennen Cove, awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the sen-ice to Union Crystal.. - View image in PDF
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AT the International Life-boat Con- ference the proposal was made by Count Yoshii, President of the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society, that steps should be taken to form an International Life-boat Organization.
COUNT...
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CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...